Well, If A Guy/Girl Didn't Mind The Not Having All The HP Software That
Came With The Computer And Had An XP Home CD Key On The Back Of
The Computer They Could Get A Hold Of An XP Home Install Cd Then
Install It That Way. If The XP Home Disk Didn't Have The Drivers You
Needed You Could Download Them From The HP Site. A Suggestion
If You Like The Way That Sounds You Should Get A 98 boot Disk
Or Installation CD And Boot Into Dos And Run A Program Called Fdisk.
Use It To Get Rid Of Both Partitions And Then Create A FAt32 Partition
With 100% Of Your Unused Space. And Then Format After You Restart
The Computer With That Same Boot Disc. Then When You Install XP
Don't Let It Convert The Harddrive To NTFS Tell It To Leave The
Current Alone As It Is As A Fat32. Fat32 Is FAster Anyway. The
Only Problem IS That It Can't Store Files Over 4 Gig. Not A Big
Deal Unless Your Saving DVD Files To Your Harddrive. And If That
Was The Case You Could Set Up Two Partitions Anyway The Fat32
For You OS And Program Files And The NTFS As You Workspace
Or Storage Partition. The Second Partition Comes In Handy So
That If You Ever Have To Start Fresh Again You Don't Need To
Lose All You Files Again. Like MP3's.
One More Thing I Think This Is In The Wrong Section. This Is
For win9x. But Oh Well.